Finals day at the Nene Valley Raceway saw the first fully dry day of the event and some great racing across all the bump up finals culminating 3 cracking European Championship Main Finals.

4WD

In 4WD 14 year old Finn Pekko Iivonen started in pole but it was reigning champion Dario Veseli who took the early lead before coming embroiled in a 20 minute battle for first with Frances' Valentin Peuziat. Dario finally asserted his superiority in the final few minutes before a crazy end which saw both Peuziat and Iivonen fail to finish with fuel issues promoting Sven Rodenwald to second and Stu Wood to a delighted, and surprised third.

RANK PILOT COUNTRY

Dario Veseli Croatia

Sven Rodewald DEU

Stu Wood Great Britain

Patrick SCHWEINZER AUT

J SARTEL FRA

Tim Vander Elst BEL

Dirk Kellermann DEU

Pekko Iivonen FIN

Valentin PEUZIAT FRA

Jouni Hiltunen FIN

2WD

In 2WD Ken Walckiers of Belgium finally became a European champion after leading 3 previous finals but failing to get over the line first. This year however there were to be no mistakes and Ken truly dominated the field, wining at a canter. Behind him Mike Plekkepoel and Karl Norriss fought hard for the runners up spot with the Dutchman Mike finally triumphing

RANK PILOT COUNTRY

Ken Walckiers BEL

Mike Plekkepoel NLD

Karl Norris Great Britain

Martin KRAUS CZE

Olivier BLANCHARD FRA

Alex Mulder NLD

Théo PLANTE FRA

Kevin van Medevoort NLD

Daan Krebaum NLD

Luke van den Berg NLD

Short Course

The Short course final saw an incredibly tense race where despite a lights to flag victory for Mathew Perry he was never more than 3 seconds in the lead and for the vast majority had either Tommy Chung or Marc Kresig stuck to this rear mudflaps. In the end it was a British 1-2 with Marc having to settle for the final step on the podium

RANK PILOT COUNTRY

Mathew Perry Great Britain

Tommy Chung Great Britain

Marc Kreisig DEU

David Parish Great Britain

Sivil Sabinov Antimov BGR

Tobias Westhoff DEU

Lee Chapman Great Britain

Gertjan van Medevoort NLD

Petrov Damyan BGR

Matthew Stokes Great Britain

A huge thanks must go the Nene Valley club who organised a superb championship that also ran to time and to plan despite some pretty inclement weather.